After Lori Lightfoot was refused a second term as Mayor of Chicago Tuesday, Chicago media outlets called her loss a 'political embarrassment' and a 'humiliation.'
The Chicago Tribune called Lightfoot’s loss a"political embarrassment unlike any suffered by a sitting mayor seeking reelection since Jane Byrne — the first and only other female mayor of Chicago — lost the 1983 Democratic primary to Harold Washington."
But more fundamentally than that, one critic said that Lightfoot didn’t do enough to make herself"into a likable person." Lightfoot couldn’t escape mockery on Twitter for contending that Chicago was a"safer, more equitable city" after her time in office.One columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, Mary Mitchell, penned a defense for Lightfoot after the incumbent mayor — the first Black woman and openly gay person to run the city — was denied a second term.
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